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Peluso's Pizza

8160 N. Lake Blvd

Kings beach , CA 

(530) 546.2301

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VdV Rating: 3.5

Food:   Pizza

Ambiance:  Casual

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PRO: Awesome thin crust pies in…Tahoe!
CON: Sometimes have to pound on the window to wake them up

So we’re sitting at our now defunct favorite Mexican restaurant in Tahoe City complaining like whiney little bitches about how bad WC Pizza usually is, as we do, when our Tahoan friend Jason exclaims “Wait a minute, that means you guys have never been to Peluso’s!” “Excuse us? Could there actually be a great pizza place in, of all places, Kings Beach?” I mean we did just add a “West Shore” category to the VdV blog.

He tells us a campfire story of a place not far away in a land where good EC style pizza is lovingly hand made by people who know pizza, right outta…New Haven! You thought I was gonna say Brooklyn huh? Nope! After all, if you’re not a Pole in CT, you’re a Wop (and I found out it doesn’t mean ‘without papers’ btw.  And those New Haveners even got their own yummy style. Jason goes on to tell us it’s so small you can drive right by it. It’s a tiny room with one sign on the front and a window you order through. Cash only. You wanna go inside on a cold day to warm up and wait? NO! Git inside your car sucka there ain’t no “inside” here.

So we make our way around the lake, drive by it once, turn around, drive up, park. Try to go inside, wait, it’s a nail place. The pizza window wasn’t open. Bummer! How could they be closed, it’s only 28 degrees out and snowing. So we head out to a crappy place to eat up the road for acky wings.

Were we gonna give up? Were we gonna let this stop us? HELL NO! Back to the elusive Peluso’s we go. Pull up, and bang on the closed window. It opens! We ask the cool, stoner guy inside if they were open and he proceeds to tell us the rundown of their weekly hours in each season. NO, ARE YOU OPEN NOW? Yes? We’ll take a sliceapepperoni and a sliceacheese.

This pizza is music to your mouth. Big huge slabs of slices, looked like they coulda been a quarter of a 16″ pie, very different from the gourmet style you scarf at Pizza Nostro, A16 or Pazzia but equally as good. We couldn’t even wait to take the picture before we started in!

PUT THE PIZZA DOWN AND BACK AWAY FROM THE BOX FOR ONE F-ING SECOND. CLICK! OK BACK AT IT.

Overkill on the pepperoni? Bring it. Killer sauce and cheese all the way to the edges? Yes. Want some real New Haven style? Order the white clam slice, it’s amazing! Hold the pineapple and ham please.

VdV Rating: 3.5

Hours:
Basically when they want to be! Call.

Peluso’s Pizza
8160 N. Lake Blvd
King’s Beach, CA
(530) 546.2301

PIZZA!